Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-17
WHAT LEARNED AT JHE INsTT-
TuUE.

| TGEE.
Extract from n paper read at Wis
eonsin Farmers Institute by David f.
sayre:
was much interested in observing
1 how each institute brought out the
fact that we individual farmers were
working out each for himself, in a sort
Of isolated way, the great problem,
how we can make farming pay Scat
tered all over the State, al distance.
more or less, from the nearest neigh
bors. vet what host we are. We are
more than half Of the population OF
the State; we ought To be more than
half Of the effective power OF the State,
whether social or political. If We
choose we can make our own Governor,
We can elect the Legislature, we can
pass any just law, We can control the
railroads; the interests Of the railroads
and the interests Of the farmers in the
long run are exactly alike-there ought
TO be no contests between them. As
farmers we could, il we willed il, exert
this power. But we never have united
front. IL seems 10 me that we are like
those little pithballs on an electric ma
chine, hung by a thread 10 a common
center; each one stands as far from
every other one rs ii can. We, isOlat- 1
ed on eur 20. 50 or lfiO acres, If we do |
not repel each other, do not draw each !
other TO our confidence. Yet no class |
of men ought to be more united in |
sympathy. in efforts. in intelligence, |
in work for the common good. The /
first effect OF the institute work was
TO magnify our profession, 90 make US
proud Of Il, instead Of making Us feel /
thatitwas adrudgery TO draw US nearer
together. to create an enthusiasm in the
line Of farming.
As one Of the accompaniments Of the
dairy came the silo ] had read about
the silo, had talked about il. bad tried
TO believe that il was the coming inn
provement on the farm. but the cost
Of Il, the work OF filling il. troubled
me. Now we were told that these need
trouble US no longer. The new ones
were described as very easily construct
ed, easily filled, easily covered, and a
| great improvement in the storage Of
! fodder. was thinking today, as was
| feeding the sheep and calves, throwing
| out a great mass OF woody fibre, the
coarse stems Of the clover, whether
Hiram Smith would tell me that, had
| put up silo, as ! promised, and put
my clover into il, that that waste would
| have been saved, would cattle have
eaten even from a silo those coarse
| stems2 | put the question here for
| him 10 answer We were told that
I three tons of ensilage equalled one ton
/ Of timothy hay that We could get from
/ Is to 25 tons OF ensilage corn per acre
l chat means extra good farming, | sus-
/ peCD equal TO or tons OF timothy
/ hay. That means that through the
/ silo We can keep COW one half cheaper
az least than We do on good hay; feed
/ ing al straw stacks alone has already
/ gone BY. / make allowance for the
/ bran which Is put ON the ensilage, but
/ I SUSPECT the cost Of the bran Is not
euuai 10 the worth Of the corn We feed
l with the timothy. After looking AZ
the matter with consideration Tor these
six months past, am inclined 10 be-
lieve that the silo is the improvement
ON the farm which we must have, and
the sooner we get IL the better il will
be for us ALL The advanced thought
~ ali the institutes was that the pedi
gree Of our stock was the strong point
In animal farming wondeFn ought
20 put il stronger than that. Today
there can be no successful competition
in stock raising except along the line
81 good pedigree. | guess that Is the
orthodox idea one man said to me
\" | would not have a thing ON my place
without pedigree. not even chicken,
In all my sales Of horses and cattle
count the pedigree AZ double the seem
ing worth Of the animal. Il colt Is
worth, 10 look at. say $iel. ] sell him
on his pedigree AZ least az $50. That
! 1 TOD - IA
ment for the most OF u. farmers, but
Il Vas really the truth with him. We
All If Us have a smattertnE ~ knowl-
edge II the influence of hereiity upon
Stark bat very few of us have tried
Ia nut our little knowledge into prac-
tire. We don't thinS the old stock
l. quite good enough but We stick 10
/ {. because We haven energy, enter
/ prise force enough 20 get into new stock
Another idea comes 70 me with
much force. Growing corn IN ahun-
dance I had always fed it lavishiy
. never stopping 90 ask whether I was
, fsf,iinr economically or not. There
wrre times when the pigs would give
. sut IN their hind legs. ] called II dis
ease at,d lei them 81. But | have no
Ast,l,t nov had l grd them less corn.
/. fst producing food, aud given them
a fos,A 60 build ap muscle. flesh, giving
! them harley. oats, clover, ! should
have saved she pigs and saved some
| rorn. 700. I have no doubt that We
5 farmers waste bushels az corn ia
5 thaurhtieSSly giving u 90 young grow
ine animals. when they require not ia'
: bIst growth 4 little While ago this
Z ala NOS seem Vi importance. hut nov
: rsnprfifiau forces Us 60 husband ever
Is rr<alrvs. one prominent farmer tolC
q me chat he couid be raise pork az tvs
1 cents ter pound. and all over that VA
J. profit II hS can 90 50 / think b.
y svts the same proft on his hogs sol,
i Fl thrre cents as ] 30 when ! sell a.
|, faar cents. for I think 10 costs me thrg'
Il cents Ga raise a pound u pork,
ilf Think wbai right have I a. SAY
= GO think WAY don't know An5
. ;ust in thar Thought lies h&I u GA
- faHurrs. the shilticsS haphaEard Wal
4 Ia doing thiues on the farm IL on
"a Heavenly Father had not given 60 "a,
u san. the rain che AR. almost cndie>
IL resources ~ seep oar farms fertile i
d s,,ste q bad usn8Esrst emit a cOs1i mani
~ u as would have hccn clozsa oui ioll
4 49, hv the sheriff Hov many e o
= Know hcW much a pound oi bel q
3. r.ark costs as We nav SnoN hos
y much = ucuBd costs a. the eIper
raentxl staton. bat hoN much does
ctsst u.s. I thiak ! may say that a
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